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EACCES: permission denied #299

Closed yaslam-dev closed 2 years ago

yaslam-dev commented 3 years ago

While Generating project using express generator using command express /server && cd /server command as a root user, the application throw the error below.

 create : /server/
/home/yasir/.nvm/versions/node/v15.14.0/lib/node_modules/express-generator/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:90
                    throw err0;
                    ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/server'
    at Object.mkdirSync (node:fs:1023:3)
    at Function.sync (/home/yasir/.nvm/versions/node/v15.14.0/lib/node_modules/express-generator/node_modules/mkdirp/index.js:71:13)
    at mkdir (/home/yasir/.nvm/versions/node/v15.14.0/lib/node_modules/express-generator/bin/express-cli.js:498:10)
    at createApplication (/home/yasir/.nvm/versions/node/v15.14.0/lib/node_modules/express-generator/bin/express-cli.js:181:5)
    at /home/yasir/.nvm/versions/node/v15.14.0/lib/node_modules/express-generator/bin/express-cli.js:472:7
    at /home/yasir/.nvm/versions/node/v15.14.0/lib/node_modules/express-generator/bin/express-cli.js:384:5
    at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (node:fs:183:23) {
  errno: -13,
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  code: 'EACCES',
  path: '/server'
}

But if I were to create server directory which is empty and init express in that, there is no error.

Technical Information

  1. npm version 7.12.0
  2. node version v15.14.0
  3. express version 4.16.1
elifraha commented 2 years ago

You are getting this error because you are trying to create a folder in the root directory (/). I presume, what you need is a project folder in current directory (server) and not root directory (/server).

Use express server && cd server.